Boy or Girl?

So Thursday is the big day! I am so excited to find out. A while back, I started looking at how early  you can determine the gender and most people said the earliest was 16 weeks, so as I started to look at the calendar, I thought "what could be a better Valentine's date than finding out if we are having a son or daughter?" So, since I will be exactly 17 weeks, I'm hoping it will be successful! We are going to Hope Pregnancy Center because I can't bear the wait until March 4th to find out. I've had some teacher friends who have had great experiences there and the resource is there so why not? 

So, this Thursday at 3:30 we will get a peek at our sweet baby (which we haven't seen in almost 2 months!) and hopefully I will find out if we are having a girl or boy. Brandon has decided that he wants the surprise of finding out with all our family and friends, so I will be left to bear the secret alone for an entire 27 hours! I'm kinda excited about being the ONLY one who knows for a little bit, although I can't believe Brandon is choosing to wait. Lots of people have encouraged me to wait too - just to let the technician write it on a piece of paper - but I want to see for myself and let her point out all the little things that prove it.  

I'm a little nervous that they won't be able to tell. I'm still undecided on what to do if that happens - just go with their best guess? or tell everyone at our party that we still don't know and we'll have the reveal party part 2 in a few weeks?? I'm leaning towards telling the technician to take their best guess and we'll just go with it.

Thursday night will be spent on a traditional date out with my husband - maybe dinner and sweet frog? and then we will come back home so I can bake the cupcakes! I'm planning on putting pink or blue in the center accordingly and then I will have to very carefully hide the evidence from Brandon. 

I have already pre-decided that I'm going to wear all blue this week. Take note of this if you're going to read into my outfit choice on Friday.  Everyone is wearing pink or blue to the reveal based on their best guess but I will be wearing blue no matter what happens. I've decided that is my best guess - I think it's a boy although heart rate was 155 and all the quizzes and fun gender predictions have given conflicting results. So I will wear a little blue all week in hopes that I'm right and if I'm wrong - I will be equally delighted - but still wearing blue on Friday :)

GOSH - I can't wait for Friday. Although I'm pumped for Thursday - I can't wait for Friday. I know school Friday will be the hardest. They will all want to know if I know? and what is it? and are you happy with what it is? (which the answer will be "OF COURSE")  Good thing my kids don't know that I'm even going to find out on Thursday or Friday would be torture listening to them beg to know before I've even told Mr. Hall. I will not be telling anyone (sorry mom). My excuse - "BABY'S DADDY DOES NOT EVEN KNOW!"

And then 7 pm will finally come and our home will fill with the people who love us the most and it will be fun to finally show off our house. And I can just feel the giddy excitement that I will be experiencing as we all hang out and wait for the big moment where we pass out the cupcakes and everyone finds out the answer to the big question I feel like I've been waiting forever for - BOY or GIRL??